Most musical Claudio,
You've been a great help in spreading the word about music, so I wanted to get this straight to you.
It's with great pleasure that I announce my third full-length solo album, I Wanna Work For You! My first all-original and fan-funded recording, it melds funk, jazz, Brazilian and salsa grooves; the theme is the search for work, for purpose, for justice, for love, for anything real in an artificial world. The 10 tunes on I Wanna Work for You ruminate on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and naked grabs for power, misguided love affairs and tired marriages, stratospheric self-actualization and gender-bent blues.
“My concept doesn’t come from sitting in some
sweet-ass studio, it’s from being in the trenches making mistakes,” says I
Wanna Work For You associate producer Sam Bevan, the accomplished bassist and Oakland native who
arranged the tunes and played acoustic and electric bass, keyboards and guitar
on the album.
I received funds from 90 backers on Kickstarter.com to finance the project. As you may recall, my previous albums were produced by multi-Grammy-nominee Wayne Wallace, for whom I contributed original lyrics and lead vocals on The Reckless Search for Beauty (among several other Patois Records dates).
I've been performing with several other bands including the rising phenomenon known as Pacific Mambo Orchestra, a one-year-old, 19-piece salsa band that plays Monday nights at Cafe Cocomo in San Francisco as well as at Yoshi’s and many festivals. Click here for more about my Kickstarter experience and the story behind I Wanna Work For You.
Wait, there's more! We're going to celebrate this Kickstarter victory and the completion of the album in fine style at Yoshi's! The I WANNA WORK FOR YOU album release concert is Sunday, December 18 at Oakland Yoshi’s!
Sam Bevan, Mara Fox, Felix Samuel, Braulio Barrera, Carlos Caro, Colin Douglas, Steffen Kuehn and Jonathan Alford join Grammy-nominated vocalist Alexa Weber Morales in performing originals from her latest album, which was fan-funded on Kickstarter. Tickets for the 7 pm show on Sunday, December 18 are $15, or $25 including CD. Yoshi’s is an all-ages venue.
I'd love to talk further with you and provide you with a download code for the digital album. Just let me know and I'll shoot you the code! I can also burn you an advance copy of the soon-to-be-manufactured disk, but we're going for a greener approach this time around!
In the meantime, you can listen to the album here: http://alexawebermorales.bandcamp.com/album/i-wanna-work-for-you
Siempre cantando,
Alexa
I received funds from 90 backers on Kickstarter.com to finance the project. As you may recall, my previous albums were produced by multi-Grammy-nominee Wayne Wallace, for whom I contributed original lyrics and lead vocals on The Reckless Search for Beauty (among several other Patois Records dates).
I've been performing with several other bands including the rising phenomenon known as Pacific Mambo Orchestra, a one-year-old, 19-piece salsa band that plays Monday nights at Cafe Cocomo in San Francisco as well as at Yoshi’s and many festivals. Click here for more about my Kickstarter experience and the story behind I Wanna Work For You.
Wait, there's more! We're going to celebrate this Kickstarter victory and the completion of the album in fine style at Yoshi's! The I WANNA WORK FOR YOU album release concert is Sunday, December 18 at Oakland Yoshi’s!
Sam Bevan, Mara Fox, Felix Samuel, Braulio Barrera, Carlos Caro, Colin Douglas, Steffen Kuehn and Jonathan Alford join Grammy-nominated vocalist Alexa Weber Morales in performing originals from her latest album, which was fan-funded on Kickstarter. Tickets for the 7 pm show on Sunday, December 18 are $15, or $25 including CD. Yoshi’s is an all-ages venue.
I'd love to talk further with you and provide you with a download code for the digital album. Just let me know and I'll shoot you the code! I can also burn you an advance copy of the soon-to-be-manufactured disk, but we're going for a greener approach this time around!
In the meantime, you can listen to the album here: http://alexawebermorales.bandcamp.com/album/i-wanna-work-for-you
Siempre cantando,
Alexa
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